Add ability to mark a gist private and vice versa about gist

[jdowner]

You can specify whether you want to create a private or a public gist but do you mean toggling between the two?

[jarun]

Right. Is there a way to toggle between private and public after the gist is created?

[jdowner]

I've had a quick look at the API but it wasn't clear if that is publically available. It can obviously done via the website so it is possible. I'll do some more research and see if I can figure something out.

[jarun]

It might be. The official Ruby client can mark a gist private:
https://github.com/defunkt/gist#readme

Please check the -p option.

[jarun]

On a closer look, I guess that's also a creation-time option.

[jdowner]

I talked with github support and they confirm that this is not available in the current API.

[jarun]

Thanks for looking into the options!

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Joshua Downer [email protected]
wrote:

I talked with github support and they confirm that this is not available
in the current API.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
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[jdowner]

@jarun thanks for the write up :) Just wanted to also point out that I have added an 'edit' command to work with the users default editor. It is pretty rudimentary but functional (for me). However, I suspect that it will be useful to have the editor specified as an option in the config file to allow users to customize how their editor is invoked to edit the files. Also, this functionality is now available from 'gist create' so that you can create a gist entirely on the fly.

[jarun]

My pleasure! I will update the article. I am a heavy private gist user myself and I liked this tool. :)